Picking Nits
Children knowing Jamie’s uncle, local adoptions and undeveloped town dysfunction
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- Children knowing Jamie’s uncle, local adoptions and undeveloped town dysfunction are questioned.
- The parents’ dinner consumes most of the film; leaving children on the anniversary of the killings is criticized. — Bill Simmons
- Selling Myers masks and moving from suburban Haddonfield to farmland are questioned; a tourist-attraction explanation is floated.
- Myers finding his niece at the drugstore, going unseen, driving a conspicuous stolen truck and fitting a mask over bandages strain credibility. — Chris Ryan
- His knowledge of the power grid is implausible, with supernatural guidance jokingly offered.
- Hoffman’s urgency to transfer Myers, hostility to Loomis, institutional hierarchy and federal-prisoner description are unclear. — Chris Ryan
- Sending only two middle-aged paramedics after16 earlier murders is criticized. — Bill Simmons
- Claims of Myers’s wasted muscles should have been checked rather than assumed. — Chris Ryan
- The protective sheriff lets his daughter remain without pants or a bra around everyone during the emergency. — Van Lathan
- Myers knows the cemetery, power station and police station despite confinement since childhood. — Bill Simmons